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Title: The Silver Box (First Series Plays)
Author: John Galsworthy
Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #2906]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Produced by David Widger
FIRST SERIES PLAYS
By John Galsworthy
THE SILVER BOX
A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
PERSONS OF THE PLAY
JOHN BARTHWICK, M.P., a wealthy Liberal
MRS. BARTHWICK, his wife
JACK BARTHWICK, their son
ROPER, their solicitor
MRS. JONES, their charwoman
MARLOW, their manservant
WHEELER, their maidservant
JONES, the stranger within their gates
MRS. SEDDON, a landlady
SNOW, a detective
A POLICE MAGISTRATE
AN UNKNOWN LADY, from beyond
TWO LITTLE GIRLS, homeless
LIVENS, their father
A RELIEVING OFFICER
A MAGISTRATE’S CLERK
AN USHER
POLICEMEN, CLERKS, AND OTHERS
TIME: The present. The action of the first two Acts takes place on
Easter Tuesday; the action of the third on Easter Wednesday week.
ACT I.
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SCENE I. Rockingham Gate. John Barthwick’s dining-room.
SCENE II. The same.
SCENE III. The same.
ACT II.
SCENE I. The Jones’s lodgings, Merthyr Street.
SCENE II. John Barthwick’s dining-room.
ACT III. A London police court.
ACT I
SCENE I
The curtain rises on the BARTHWICK’S dining-room, large,
modern, and well furnished; the window curtains drawn.
Electric light is burning. On the large round dining-table is
set out a tray with whisky, a syphon, and a silver
cigarette-box. It is past midnight.
A fumbling is heard outside the door. It is opened suddenly;
JACK BARTHWICK seems to fall into the room. He stands holding
by the door knob, starin...